Werner was one of dozens of parents at a State Board of Education meeting in Orlando last week pleading for changes to the state’s testing system.

They’ve organized online. And they encourage parents to keep their children out of testing – also known as opting out.

State records show it’s still just a small percentage of students sitting out tests. But the number is growing – and lawmakers are listening.

Last year the Legislature changed their mind about requiring final exams for every class. They capped testing at five percent of class time.

Their mantra was “fewer and better” tests. This year, lawmakers are studying whether they can use one test for more than one purpose.

Senate education chairman John Legg says a student who aces the AP English exam maybe shouldn’t have to take the Florida Standards Assessments too.

“Can we use some alternative assessment in substitute of the FSA at a high school level?” he said.

Legg said he doesn’t think this will work for middle and elementary school students – they’ll probably still have to take the state test.

But even people who say there’s too much testing are not in favor of getting rid of the Florida Standards Assessments and other exams entirely. Like Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.

“I think nobody here is advocating for the elimination of testing,” Carvalho said at a press conference in Washington, D.C. last week. “We can not go back to the years where the curtain of high-performing students hid pockets of underperforming kids.”

Carvalho and Civil Rights groups say testing forces school districts to track just how much low-income or minority or disabled students are learning.

Education Commissioner Pam Stewart and legislative leaders have said repeatedly that they believe in using test results to judge schools and teachers.

But it’s not so much the quantity of testing – two percent of class time, or five percent – but the consequence of those tests that draw so many complaints. That’s the root of the “obsession” that President Obama is talking about.

Cindy Hamilton is an Orlando parent and one of the leaders of the state’s opt out movement. She ticked off all the decisions made using test scores: “teacher performance pay; school grades; pass; fail; remediation; retention and the denial of the diploma — all riding on one test score.”

She’s said erasing those consequences is the real goal – all the changes so far are just “smoke and mirrors.”

“Until they are willing to address what they do with the data and how they use it and remove the stakes,” she said, “really nothing’s going to change.”

Hamilton said the changes so far are politically easy. It’ll be much harder to convince Florida leaders to stop using state test results to make decisions and grade schools.

President Obama said he wants to help.

“We’re going to work with states, school districts teachers and parents to make sure we’re not obsessing about testing,” he said in the Facebook video.